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Automated Detection of Tuberculosis Using Electronic Medical Record Data
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Approximately one quarter of people treated for tuberculosis (TB) have no supporting microbiology, and thus are not detectable through laboratory reporting systems. Health departments depend upon clinicians to report these… read more… with a combined positive predictive value of 82%. By com- parison, the most sensitive single algorithm (any ICD9 … Control. “Sum- mary Statistics For The Year 2005.” http://www.mass.gov/dph/cdc/tb/tb_summarydata.rtf [2] Yokoe et al. …